Play by Play: Enterprise Data Encryption with Azure Revealed with Stephen Haunts and Lars Klint

I first hinted at this course back in January after attending NDC London, as this Play by Play was recorded at the conference. It is the first time I have done anything like this and I really enjoyed the whole experience. The subject we discussed in the course is about protecting your data in a multi-tenant environment in the cloud (Azure for example) using Azure Key Vault. This is a subject that is vital for organisations to get right, which is why we thought it would make a good Play by Play.

Here is the course description:

Play by play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Enterprise Data Encryption with Azure Revealed, Stephen Haunts and Lars Klint look at the different ways in which enterprises can protect their data, especially in a cloud-first, multi-tenant world. You’ll learn concepts around encrypting enterprise data, look at what you should encrypt, and cover robust patterns and practices you can follow in your organizations. By the end of this course, you’ll have a better understanding of enterprise data encryption methods and how to apply them to your organization.

As the description states these courses are unrehearsed and unscripted, which is true. We have an idea of the demos and a list of bullet points of things we want to cover but apart from that the course is done as a conversation between me and Lars.

Stephen Haunts at NDC {London} 2017

These courses are designed to be deliberately short, around an hour, because we pick one narrow subject and discuss that in detail. These are not full subject, in depth courses, but they give you enough knowledge to be practical and useful with tips for further research. This means that the courses are very easy to watch in a short space of time. This course is about an hour in length, so is the length of a normal podcast or conference talk.

If you watch this course and then want to go into much more depth, then this course compliments my other course called Practical Cryptography in .NET which goes into much more detail on the AES and RSA cryptographic algorithms. What this Play by Play features is how to securely protect any encryption keys you use to protect your data.

The Play by Play is quite practical and I run through several code demos. The source code for all these demos are included with the course.